Dutch MPs criticise new US export ban on ASML chip machine

Oct25
by on October 25, 2023 at 2:25 pm
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Dutch politicians have expressed their dismay over the US’ new export rules for ASML, claiming that Washington has “unilaterally” imposed restrictions on selling yet another chip making machine to China. AMSL has already been prohibited from selling its most sophisticated machines to China since 2019. This year in June (following months of pressure by the US), the Netherlands also introduced stricter export controls of high-end chip manufacturing products citing “national security interests.” Unsurprisingly, ASML’s advanced immersion DUV lithography systems fall under the measures. But last week, Washington updated its export restrictions to include ASML’s Twinscan NXT1930Di machine if it contains…

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‘We may irreversibly lose control of autonomous AI,’ warn top academics

Oct24
by on October 24, 2023 at 2:47 pm
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Open letters warning over AI’s risks are amassing — with top technologists and researchers sounding the alarm on uncontrollable development, pressing existential threats, and the lack of regulation. Now, just a week before the AI Summit in London, a new letter calls on companies and governments to ensure the safe and ethical use of AI. The signatories include a number of European academics, three Turing Award winners, and even so-called AI godfathers Yoshua Bengio and Geoffrey Hinton. Not coincidentally, last May, Hinton quit Google to freely speak about the looming dangers of artificial intelligence. To add to the dystopian atmosphere,…

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Should we be working at 85% capacity? The pros and cons of ‘sustainable’ effort

Oct23
by on October 23, 2023 at 4:14 pm
Posted In: Future of Work


Perfectionism and productivity are uneasy bedfellows. The pandemic, job insecurity, and mass layoffs that followed have exacerbated over-performance burnout, leading to a new thought pattern in employee welfare; one that nobody dared utter out loud until now. What if we only gave 85% of ourselves to our jobs? Is 85% the productivity sweet spot? Devised by sprinter nine-time Olympic gold medalist, Carl Lewis, the philosophy behind the 85% rule is that to maintain a balance between excellent performance and excellent output, you don’t need to give 100% all the time. This is because working at 85% effort leaves 15% for…

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Why AI progress hitting the brakes is more likely than world domination

Oct20
by on October 20, 2023 at 10:49 am
Posted In: artificial intelligence


There’s a looming global computing capacity crunch that cannot be sustainably addressed the way we’re doing things right now.  Simply put, between artificial intelligence (AI) models growing exponentially and an ongoing global digital transformation, data centres are running out of space. Their vacancy rates are hitting record-lows and prices are rising in response to demand, which is cause for much unease among tech leaders.   If this trend continues, at some point, we will reach a juncture where we can no longer accomplish all the things that technology theoretically allows us to do, because our capacity to process data will be…

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Exercise bike inspired by Ukraine war provides backup power during emergencies

Oct20
by on October 20, 2023 at 9:25 am
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Lithuanian startup Tukas EV has developed an exercise bike that harnesses the energy you produce while peddling and stores it as a backup source of power for household devices and appliances. The exercise bike, dubbed HR Bank, was designed to provide urban dwellers with a reliable source of clean energy, but, perhaps more importantly, also for those in need of power during emergencies like natural disasters or wars. “Our idea was that a person who bought an HR bank could not only use it as an external battery, charged from the sun or the grid, but in the absence of…

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